AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD FirePro W9000

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

AMD FirePro W9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +43%

5.728 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

32

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

274W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Tahiti

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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